Hitman review – a beautiful puzzle box of a game

Finally released as a complete package, last year's episodic stealth shooter is the best in the series and possibly one of the finest stealth games ever made

When this new instalment in the Hitman series was first announced back in June 2015, the overwhelming reaction was one of confusion.

Following 2012's poorly received Hitman: Absolution, the franchise was to re-emerge as something unprecedented in the action adventure genre: a six-part digital episodic release, spread across a whole year, each part constituting one level of the final game. Nobody was quite sure what this experiment would look like, or what the point was.